Scott Tavares wrote:
Geezz relax Vic, ..... I can not understand why you are so
passionate about this.
Sincerely I think this is bad for open source and for sofware, which is where I do make a living.
This is great for comercail vendors, "proving" that open source are... less ethical. What does it mean to be an open source supporter now, to a client? (OK, I should take the point that I need to let go of Don Quihote)
I think lawyers have a bad reputation, and I do not want my profesion, sofware engineers to have that reputation.
Henri Yandel wrote: "This is where we get into the question of whether the ASF have licenced under an ASF licence, and not the LGPL licence of Elba, a piece of code that is not licensable. If so, then they have legally broken a barrier. Use of code is tricky, what if they have merely copied a design. I've not seen anything in terms of open source test cases to suggest how open open-source designs are."
The apprent position of ASF is that.. well it's same design but we have (former jBoss developers changing the implementation over time.
In esence, in music, same notes, but diferent performance ( same musicians.) You don't see how a PHB might hesiteate to hire an OSS suporter?
Can somone downlaod "Resin"EE (for example :-) source, and refactor and now they "own" it? Or take OrionServer and decompile and refactor, and now they "own" it?
Do ... or don't do what you want. I am done with it.
.V
ps: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-dev&m=106858581404361&w=2 (I can see the water mill now, now... it's a Dragon!!!!)
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